According to professors, “queer approaches” tend to concentrate more on the L and G of LGBTQIA + and less on some of the other letters.
Two Illinois academics are hoping to stop the “erasure” of homosexuality, in certain by using “digital spots”.
For the conference, Associate Professor of Digital Rhetorics and Technical Communication Derek/Erika Sparby and Assistant Professor of Critical Feminist Science & Technology at the University of Illinois- Chicago will collaborate. Sparby ( pictured, left ) goes by” Derek” now but has previously used the name” Erika”.
” Over the last few years, the areas of language and writing research have undergone a sort of queering” and “scholars have come to recognize the value of queer persuasive approaches”, the couple wrote.
However, this has n’t been without controversy, according to the two “bisexual scholars” organizing the” Symposium Issue of Rhetoric Review on Bisexual Digital Rhetorics.”
According to them,” Cindy and Derek have come to understand that some of these queer techniques frequently repeat the darkness that is frequently socially inherent in bisexuality.”
The “queer approaches…tend to target more strongly on the L and G of LGBTQIA + and less on some of the other characters, or on’ homosexual’ as a larger umbrella”, they wrote.
The scholars claim that this is merely a reputation that it’s time for lesbian rhetorics to rise from destruction to visibility because, to be clear, this is not a criticism of these significant works in our field.
Bisexuality, the faculty explain, “does no fit nicely into a gender binary interest model”.
Rather, they write:
Bisexual people can be attracted to men or women ( trans or cis ), nonbinary, genderqueer, or any other gender. We may get attracted to one man at a time, or several people. We might be more attracted to some folks emotionally or sexually than others. Bisexuality is noisy and resists easy categorisation, and as a result so do our rhetorics.
The scholars stated that our goal is to raise the awareness of gay and lesbian rhetorics while also raising the profile of them.
A different and intersecting group of authors will be able to “enter a noisy puzzle of what it means to be lesbian in online spaces, as an individual whose extremely existence causes binaries and rejects neat categorization,” they hope to accomplish.
” What does it mean to create a lesbian area? What does it mean to be bisexual and ] _ __ ] ( and poly, and ace, and trans, and and and )? What do they ask of creating a culture where homosexuality is not constantly under attention or erasure?
These are just a few of the inquiries we hope posts may address.
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